Games and Amusements

[Ralph W. Reid]

Anyone interested in interactive fiction might want to check out

http://ifarchive.org/

That site also has an ftp archive of a very large number of IF games,
interpreters, source code, compilers, contest info and winners, and
more.

Enjoy, and have a great day!

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> There was also an ftp site somewhere that had infocom interpreters for 
> linux, and a large archive of the old infocom games...however I forget 
> the site, and don't have the bookmark anymore...
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 
> 07:55:36AM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > Yes, I've got that package--which was where I got my hands on the original 
> > Rogue, incidentally.  Some of those programs are very amusing indeed--I'm 
> > thinking of fortune, and all that.  Hehe.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 5:34 AM
> > Subject: Re: Games and Amusements
> > 
> > 
> > > Have you looked at the bsd-games package? that comes with quite a few
> > > text-based games and other amusing little programs.
> > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007
> > > at 10:33:31PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> > >> Howdy,
> > >> I was wondering if anybody might be able to give me an idea of what games 
> > >> and amusements they might be able to successfully access under Linux?  I 
> > >> myself am a big fan of the 'roguelike games', and have found that for the 
> > >> most part Speakup works tolerably well with most of them.  (The only real 
> > >> annoyance I can see is that the keys to move by lines are defaulting to 
> > >> reading the new line--and in the case of a game like Nethack or Rogue 
> > >> that doesn't always make much sense.  I was wondering about a possible 
> > >> feature to toggle the up-down behavior--possibly to read characters, 
> > >> words, or lines as appropriate?
> > >> Also, I was wondering what anybody else on here thinks?  How do you amuse 
> > >> yourselves with Linux?
> > >> Thanks much,
> > >> Zack.
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